Introduction

Welcome to the first installment of the CPU and Video Card Price Guide for
April 2001. We publish this article to help you the consumer, find the best
deals on the 'net. All the tedious work like finding the best prices and locating
reputable retailers has already been done so all you have to do is figure out
what product is right for you. As always we encourage the reader to investigate
every retailer's reliability before ordering, but we have tried to eliminate
typically problematic ones from our price guides.

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This Week

This week we see more needed Pentium 4 price cuts as well as welcomed Pentium
III price drops. The higher speed Celeron CPUs also see some decent savings.

On the AMD front, we see some much needed price drops in the high end Athlon
and Athlon-C (266MHz FSB) processors. We also see the introduction of the latest
Duron processor: the Duron 900. The rest of the Athlon (Thunderbird) and Duron
line saw a downward trend in prices.

As for the video card segment, we see some falling prices in the ATI Radeon
cards as well as a some significant price drops in NVIDIA's GeForce2 line of
cards.